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The Los Angeles County coroner's office and Los Angeles Police Department were both investigating the death of filmmaker Tony Scott , including interviewing witnesses. Simon Halls, a spokesman for Scott's family, said the family asked "that their privacy be respected at this time. " Los Angeles police first learned of the incident after 12:30 p.m. from a 911 caller who said that an unidentified man had leaped off the suspension bridge that connects San Pedro and Terminal Island.

Joey Kovar -- a native of Evergreen Park who appeared in "Real World: Hollywood" and "Celebrity Rehab 3" -- was found dead Friday morning in south suburban Chicago Ridge, according to family and police. An autopsy conducted on Saturday was inconclusive and the cause of death was pending toxicological test results, officials said today. Chicago Ridge police and paramedics were called to an apartment building in the 9800 block of South Sayre Avenue shortly before 9 a.m. Friday and found the 29-year-old Kovar dead, authorities said.

Two Winter Park High School students who were killed along the Cady Way Trail earlier this year had ingested drugs prior to their deaths, toxicology reports show. Low level amounts of prescription and illicit drugs, as well as alcohol were found in the blood samples of 16-year-old Nicholas Presha and 18-year-old Jeremy Stewart, according to documents released by the Orange-Osceola State Attorney's Office as part of a public records request. Toxicology reports identified Xanex, alcohol and cocaine metabolites — the chemicals left in the body after ingesting cocaine — were found in both teens.

Alex Okrent could see the November finish line to his nearly decade-long journey with Barack Obama , and was thinking about his next move. The 29-year-old Evanston native had traveled around the country and to the political heights with Obama since volunteering for his U.S. Senate primary race in 2004, but was eyeing this fall's presidential election as the end. Okrent retained his devotion to progressive politics, said his father, Mike...

An autopsy is planned for Sage Stallone, actor Sylvester Stallone 's eldest son, who may have been dead for several days before he was found Friday afternoon at his home in the Hollywood Hills. Authorities told L.A. Now that foul play was not suspected in the death of the 36-year-old actor, writer and producer, who made his film debut opposite his father playing Rocky Balboa Jr. in "Rocky V. " Word that the younger Stallone may have been dead for a while comes via law-enforcement sources who spoke to TMZ , explaining that Sage's housekeeper had been following standing instructions not to enter his bedroom, but ultimately checked on him Friday after his mom could not get in touch with him. OBITUARY: Sage Stallone, dead at 36 "I never knew him to drink alcohol.

Police on Friday identified a Daytona Beach man whose body was found floating Thursday in the water at Main Street Bridge in Daytona Beach. Officers identified the man as Muno Saavedra, 50. An autopsy revealed that he drowned. Foul play is not suspected. Alcohol may have been a factor in Saavedra's death, police said. Results from a toxicology test will not be available for up to six weeks. Susan Jacobson

The world is calling Rudy Eugene , who chewed off a homeless man's face, a cannibal — but an autopsy shows there was no human flesh in his stomach. The post-death examination did reveal a number of undigested pills in his stomach, but investigators have not identified them yet, a law enforcement source said. To read the full story, go to The Miami Herald .

Mary Richardson Kennedy, the estranged wife of Robert Kennedy Jr. who had struggled with alcohol and drugs, died of asphyxiation due to hanging, it was announced Thursday. The body of the 52-year-old was found in a building at her home in Bedford , N.Y., on Wednesday. An autopsy was performed Thursday morning by a Westchester County medical examiner. Officials on Thursday morning released a two-sentence statement, sent by email to reporters: "The Westchester County Medical Examiner's office today did an autopsy on the body of Mary Richardson Kennedy," the statement said.

An autopsy is slated to be conducted Monday on a Polk County inmate who died over the weekend. Brian George Brewer, 28, was found unresponsive in his cell about 5 a.m. Saturday by his cellmate, who called for detention deputies to assist, thePolk County Sheriff's Officereported. The deputies called 911 and performed CPR, but Brewer never regained consciousness. Brewer, of Winter Haven, was arrested in February on two counts of probation violation. He was ordered to serve 270 days in jail and was housed in a cell at the South County Jail in Frostproof since sentencing, the Sheriff's Office said.

LOS GATOS, Calif. -- Artist Thomas Kinkade died of an accidental overdose of alcohol and valium , according to autopsy findings reported Monday by a Bay Area news organization. Family members say Kinkade, 54, died April 6 at his home near Los Gatos. The San Jose Mercury News reported last week that Kinkade's girlfriend, Amy Pinto, called for help after the painter, 54, had stopped breathing. "Apparently he's been drinking all night and not moving," a fire-department dispatcher says in a recording.